T. S. Eliot Quotes

When you are debilitated, and you're very depressed, and you believe there's no hope, you cannot get a better potpourri of down.

It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums. But I see a lot of people, a lot of my friends in the same predicament. Many times in my life, I was there myself.

It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling.

Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

It’s amazing how much you’re missing in a depressive state until you start to come out on the other side. It’s like breathing again after being underwater for far too long.

If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.

Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.

Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

I must end it. There is no hope. I will be at peace. No one had anything to do with it. My decision totally.

I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine.

There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.

I don't want to be submerged by depression.

I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain places when I play to heal.